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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union

Call Number

PE.006

Date

1920-1991, inclusive

Creator

Tamiment Library

Extent

3 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Abstract

The Printed Ephemera Collection on the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union is an artificial collection, collected and assembled by the Tamiment Library over the course of several decades. It consists largely of contracts and agreements between the Union and various companies, both from the United States and Canada, and ranging in date from the 1940s to the 1980s. The collection also contains constitutions, circular letters, reports, fliers, and pamphlets and publications, as well as articles and clippings about the Union. In the collection are materials from locals of the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union as well as materials from its predecessors, including the Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union and the United Hatters of North America.

Historical/Biographical Note

The United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW) was formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of United Hatters of North America and the Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union. The United Hatters of North America was established in New York in 1896 as the result of the merger of two Knights of Labor-affiliated unions in the men's hat industry, the Hat Makers and the Hat Finishers. The Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union was established in New York in 1901, as the United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of North America (superseding the Cloth Hat and Cap Operators Union), and took its final name (adding Millinery Workers) in 1918. In 1983 the UHCMW joined the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, which in turn merged in 1995 with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to form UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees).

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into two series: Series I: Agreements and Contracts, 1940-1991; Series II: General Files, 1920-1978. Folders are arranged alphabetically within series.

Scope and Content Note

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union largely consists of agreements and contracts, it also contains constitutions and reports as well as printed ephemera such as fliers, circular letters, newspaper clippings, programs, pamphlets and other publications.

Series I: Agreements and Contracts, 1940-1989, consists of legal size agreements and contracts with companies around the United States and Canada.

Series II: General Files, 1920-1978, contains material from the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union, however, this series also contains material from the Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union and the United Hatters of North America, two predecessor unions. The General Files consist of constitutions and financial reports as well as publications put out by the National Recovery Administration on codes of fair conduct for the hat manufacturing industry. There are fliers from the Millinery and Hatters Committee for Wallace, documenting the committee's support of Henry A. Wallace's bids for the US presidency in 1944 and 1948. The collection also contains a small number of fliers and ephemera regarding the Union Label Campaign and various union and national elections. In addition to material from the international and national bodies of the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union, there are also files from locals, including Locals 3 and 8, both from New York City. The file on Local 8 contains financial reports, local election fliers, rank and file produced circular letters, and a constitution dated 1922, at that time under the auspices of the United Hatters of North America.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials in this collection have been compiled by the Tamiment Library. There is no accession record associated with this collection.

Custodial History

The provenance of the materials is varied. Items were obtained through purchases, donations, standing orders with publishers, arrangements with labor unions and other organizations, exchanges with other libraries, and through ongoing collecting by Tamiment staff.

Related Material at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

United Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers Union Photographs (PHOTOS 175)

United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union Records (TAM 054)

United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, Millinery Workers Joint Board Records (WAG 41)

Collection processed by

Adrien Hilton

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:27:46 -0400.
Language: Description is in English

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Series I: Agreements and Contracts, 1940-1991, inclusive

Adjustable Hat Company, 1969-1976, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Allied Hat Manufacturers, 1956-1970, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Millinery Manufacturers, 1967-1970, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AOCO Limited, 1972-1978, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Associated Buckram Shape Manufacturers, Inc., 1949-1952, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Association of Millinery Manufacturers, 1963-1974, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Atlantic Hatblock Corporation, 1969, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Atson's Product Corporation, 1961-1974, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bako Uniform Cap Corporation, 1968-1982, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Baltimore Hat Sewers, Inc., 1962-1970, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Barton Rough Hat Company, Inc., 1963-1968, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Benay-Albee Novelty Company, 1961-1989, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bernstein Hat Company, 1966-1981, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bertha Hat Company, 1975, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pete Brooks Hats, Inc., 1966, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biltmore Hats, 1958-1981, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biltmore Hats Western Limited, 1966, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Binder Brothers Inc., 1977, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bleber-Godman Associates, 1964-1966, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Byer-Rolnick, 1973-1979, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Champ Hats, 1959-1970, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Charu-Canton Hat Company, 1975, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Chaucer Leather Limited, 1973, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

C.N. Clark Company, Inc., 1962-1975, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Classic Cap Company, 1974-1979, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Crown Cap Manufacturers, 1966-1986, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Danbury Hat Company, 1975-1983, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

David Hat Company, 1960-1966, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eastern Women's Headwear Association, Inc., 1940-1958, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Empire Hat Block Corporation, 1965, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FDR Industries, 1972-1980, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Feld Man Machine Works, 1965-1975, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Franklin and Lasoff, Inc., 1975-1978, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Frielich Leather Corporation, 1971-1974, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gelhaar Uniform Company, 1966-1972, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General Cap Corporation, 1976-1977, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hat Corporation of America, 1944-1970, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hat Frame Manufacturers Association of New York, Inc., 1955, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hatters Machinery and Equipment Association, 1965-1967, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Henschel Manufacturing Company, 1974-1979, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Holly Manufacturing, Inc., 1981, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hubbard Dyers, Limited, 1965-1966, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Imperial Caps, 1977, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Imperial Optical Company, Limited, 1971-1975, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Imperial Optical Company, Limited, 1977-1979, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Imperial Optical Company, Limited: Lens Plant, 1969-1977, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Imperial Optical Company, Limited: Prescription Laboratories, 1971-1978, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Independent Manufacturers, 1969-1977, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Iona Hat Company, 1963-1966, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

J.A. Miller Company, 1966-1982, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jay Gerish Company and Agrest Dying Company, 1969-1980, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jay Lord Hatters, 1965-1977, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Kahn Optical Company, Limited, 1973, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

James Shaen, Limited, 1973-1977, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jan Leslie Company, 1965-1969, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

L. Kleinman, 1966-1975, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lowenthal and Hess, Inc., 1957-1969, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lynbrooke Hat Company, Inc., 1972-1980, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Malrov United Hat Company, 1966-1981, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Manual Hat Company, 1969-1975, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mar Bee Hat Company, 1970, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Marty the Hatter (Van Dyke Hatters), 1970-1977, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Massachusetts Millinery Manufacturers Association, 1961, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mass Hat and Novelty Corporation, 1972-1974, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Midway Industries, Limited, 1965, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Midwest-Northeastern Hat Company, 1974-1982, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Millinery Manufacturers of New Jersey, Inc., 1943-1957, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Monarch Optical Manufacturers, Limited, 1972-1980, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Montreal Hat and Cap Manufacturing Company, 1964-1980, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mutual Electric and Machinery Corporation, 1977, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Association of Ladies' Hatters, Inc., 1943-1949, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Headwear Manufacturers Association, 1965-1972, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New York Association of Wholesalers of Ladies' and Children's Hats, Inc., 1942, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oakley Optical, Limited, 1973, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

O'Connor-Goldstein Company, 1961-1982, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ontario Cap Manufacturers Association, 1972-1991, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oxford Hat and Cap Company, 1974, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Philadelphia Millinery Association, 1946-1979, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pioneer Block Company, 1967, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pittsburgh Hat Works, 1979, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Puma Hat Company, 1982, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Resistol Hats, 1971-1985, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rosiclare Manufacturing Company, 1979-1989, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

S&B Headwear, Inc., 1969, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

S&M Cap Company, 1960-1969, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

S&S Hat Company, 1972-1983, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

St. Louis Cap Front Manufacturing Company, 1966-1979, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Salmar Contractors, Inc., undated

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sharon Hats, Inc., 1969, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Society Brand, Inc., 1969-1975, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sportwear Industries, 1965, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Star Headwear, 1977-1987, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sue Ellen Hat Company, 1966-1975, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sue Hatter of Florida, Inc., 1969-1974, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ted Kleinman, Inc., 1975-1981, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Toppers, Inc., 1959-1976, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uniform Manufacturers Exchange, Inc., 1964-1967, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Uniform Manufacturers Exchange, Inc., 1969-1979, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Manufacturing Company, 1971-1974, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Universal Hat and Cap Manufacturing Company, Inc., 1964-1984, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wagner Hat Company, Inc., 1968-1970, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wentworth Uniform Cap Company, 1977-1980, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

West Penn Hat and Cap Corporation, 1975-1977, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wiedeman Hat Company, 1957-1970, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

William Scully, Limited, 1964, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wood Hat Block Manufacturers Association, 1967-1975, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Series II: General Files, 1920-1978, inclusive

Cloth Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers' International Union/Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of North America, 1920-1927, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Constitutions, undated

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Constitutions, 1934-1939, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Constitutions, 1944-1946, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Constitutions, 1953, 1959, 1978, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conventions: Reports from Officers, 1936-1939, 1948, 1959, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial Reports, 1944, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Headgear Workers American Labor Party Club, undated

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Headgear Workers' Credit Union, 1924, undated, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Headgear Workers Lyceum, 1920

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lawlor, Martin, undated

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Local 3 (Straw and Panama Hatters, New York, NY), undated

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Local 8 (New York, NY), 1922, 1936-1948, undated, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Local 20 and 56 (Millinery Workers' Union) (St. Louis), 1936, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Local 24, 1945-1952, undated, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Local 57, 1952, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Local 75 (Beacon, NY), undated

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Local 125 (Corsicana, TX), 1958, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Men's Hat Department, 1935, undated, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Millinery and Hatters Committee for Wallace (New York, NY), circa 1944-1948, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Millinery Workers Health and Retirement Funds (New York, NY), 1946-1952, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Recovery Administration: Codes of Fair Conduct for Hat Manufacturing, 1934, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New Leader (AFL Publication), Increasing Circulation of, 1938, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Newspaper Clippings and Articles on, 1946-1961, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pamphlets and Publications, 1941, undated, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Union Label Campaign, circa 1966, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Hatters of North America, 1920-1927, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Ticket Campaign, undated

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012